Vanilla kipferl/cookies. The name Vanillekipferl (pronounced VAN-el-eu-KIP-fuhl) literally means "vanilla crescent" or "vanilla moon." These crescent-shaped cookies originate from Vienna, Austria, where they are a much-loved, traditional Christmas cookie. Vanilla Kipferl Cookies are a traditional Austrian Christmas cookie. These light and crisp cookies are always shaped like a crescent and dusted with vanilla sugar. Vanillekipferl (German Vanilla Crescent Cookies) are traditional German Christmas Cookies made with ground nuts and dusted with vanilla sugar! They are tender, nutty and melt in your mouth.
A perfect cookie to make ahead that's always a hit.
Transfer to different (cool, not warm) baking sheet; sprinkle with vanilla-flavored powdered sugar.
Form the pieces into small rolls with pointy tapering ends; bend these into crescents and place on ungreased baking sheets.
You can have Vanilla kipferl/cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Vanilla kipferl/cookies
- Prepare 250 gr of all purpose flour.
- It's 200 gr of butter.
- It's 125 gr of sugar.
- Prepare 1 pack of vanilla sugar.
- You need 3 of egg yolks.
- It's 100 gr of almond nuts (powder).
- It's 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
Dredge the crescents while still warm in vanilla sugar or powdered sugar. Reapply sugar after they cool (sift over the top inside their storage container). Place the cookies a non-stick or parchment-lined cookie sheet. Let the cookies sit for one minute and then use a sifter to dust them with the vanilla-powdered sugar while they're still hot.
Vanilla kipferl/cookies instructions
- Mix the flour, baking powder, butter and sugar in a bowl with your hand..
- Add the egg yolks. Mix the ingredients all together..
- Add the almond powder. Slowly mix the dough until it is formed a ball..
- Cover half of the dough in clear/aluminium folio and keep it in the fridge while doing another half..
- Roll the dough into flat dough and using mold to shape the dough into desired shape..
- Keep it on the baking tray covered with baking paper..
- Preheat the oven to 170 C. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes..
- Remove it out and cool it down..
- Sprinkle sugar powder on top of the cookies..
Vanillekipferl or Vanilla Crescent Cookies are buttery, nutty, melt-in-your-mouth German cookies that are rich, made with ground nuts and covered with fine vanilla sugar. What are Vanillekipferl or Vanilla Crescents? Real vanilla sugar tastes better and you need those tiny black specks of vanilla as well, they are part of the vanilla crescent cookies. The vanilla crescent cookies are very delicate, especially when fresh out of the oven. Store the biscuits in a sealed tin for several days for them to become crumbly.